Clayton A. Chan, D.D.S. Founder/Director

About Dr. Chan

Dr. Clayton Chan is a dental educator, trainer and consultant to dentists who span the globe from private practice to leading dental organizations. All attest to Dr. Chan's unique impact in the field of private practice, personal and organizational transformation and development.

Dr. Chan has shared platforms with leading authorities in the areas of occlusion, temporomandibular joint dysfunction, orthodontic/orthopedics and comprehensive restorative and continues to be a leader in advocating the use of objective measuring technologies to bring accountability to the clinical dental practice.

Occlusion Connections™ is designated as an Approved PACE Program Provider by the Academy of General Dentistry. The formal continuing dental education programs of this program provider are accepted by AGD for Fellowship/Mastership and membership maintenance credit. Approval does not imply acceptance by a state or provincial board of dentistry or AGD endorsement. The current term of approval extends from 9/1/2016 to 8/31/2020. Provider ID# 349336.

Welcome to OC

A new understanding is required of today’s dentist to grasp underlying factors that relates clinical dentistry to both the gnathic and neuromuscular principles. This journey is a blended process that brings an in depth understanding with clinical experience. Together with excellence based on honesty, respect, discipline and courage these organic concepts will come together in both skilled clinical application and bio-physiologic science. This is GNM.

Finding a Qualified GNM Dentist

Disclosure:
It is the responsibility of each patient to ask the right questions in order to determine whether a dentist is qualified to meet your particular dental needs. Dentist have varying degrees of knowledge, experience, training and skills. Occlusion Connections™ is not responsible for the diagnostic and clinical decision making that each dentist makes when treating their patients.

The dentist listed on this map have taken varying levels of OC courses. It is your responsibility to determine if each one is qualified to treat and help meet your particular needs.

How important is position of head posture in the success of the Optimized Bite as it relates to Optimizing a TMD patients resolution or an athlete’s performance?

The answer below is based upon the teachings of Dr. Clayton Chan, whom elite athletic groups and practitioners have partnered with, for the execution of the scientific protocols and process of the OC’s BITE OPTIMIZATION process.

The Optimized Bite’s reason for success lies in the pure fact that it is based upon a head posture that is level with the horizon. When upper complex (upper head) is level, and the Optimized Bite provides that ideal relationship with the lower jaw / mandible, the positive effects of unleashing the body’s potential translates from the atlas and downward the spinal column, unleashing the whole cervical complex. Anything less than that Optimal position may lend to a temporary gain, but not for long.

“Regardless of the stance and or head position that each and every sport demands the body to perform, the Optimized Bite as we have been advocating will allow the body to deliver the necessary functions for optimal balance, flexibility and strength with the quality of resting states required for optimal performance.” – Clayton Chan, DDS

TRAINING:

Our Optimized Bite™ training is systematic educational learning process that involves a foundational Level 1 training following Advanced Physiologic Principles of Occlusion and a more advanced Level 5 training to scientifically verify and document the process of Optimization.

STEP 1:

Enroll and complete OC Level 1 Course

Understand the importance and why the Optimized Bite doctors use J5 Myomonitor TENS.

Understand the foundational principles of “Building the Optimized Bite”.

STEP 2:

Learn how to use the K7 and get training.

Enroll and complete the OC Level 5 Course

Understand the advanced neuromuscular bite taking protocols and principles using the K7 kineseograph with simultaneous use of the J5 Myomonitor TENS.

Optimizing the Bite is a scientifically verifiable process that is accurate to within 0.1-0.3 mm accuracy using TENs and K7 instrumentation. It is a scientific approach that uses objectively measured calibrated data to assist the operators in achieving the best maxillary to mandibular relationship possible.